Author: Bostjan

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Machine Learning in Java

My second book on Data Science is focused on how to implement Machine Learning applications in Java by leveraging most popular libraries such as Apache Mahout, Weka, deeplearning4java, and others. It is scheduled to be published by the end of the year. Machine Learning in Java will provide you with the techniques and tools you …

Projects

e-Turist

E-Turist is a mobile application that provides a personalized sightseeing program. The applications aims to provide a tourist with an experience comparable to that offered by a professional tour guide, but tailored specifically to user. The tourist enters her interests, the available time and any special requirements she may have. Based on these, the application …

Projects

Classifying animal sounds

Together with a team at Department of intelligent systems we started a machine learning-based approach to recognize different types of animal species based on the sound they produce. Currently supported species are Bumblebees, Birds, And Frogs. Website: http://animal-sounds.ijs.si A. Gradisek et al.: How to Recognize Animal Species Based On Sound – A Case Study On …

Projects, Publication

Recommender system for eco-friendly accommodations

As as part of EU project EcoDots we built a recommender system for eco-friendly accommodations at the website ecobnb.com. The system leverages Prediction.IO platform and Elasticserach to offer recommendations as a service. G. Slapnicar et al.: Recommender System as a Service based on the Alternating Least Squares Algorithm (IS 2015) In this paper, we describe …

Research

Predictive API and Decision as a Service

The key challenge that existing predictive analytics software has not been able to solve is how to extract knowledge from data quickly and put it into the hands of data owners to make better, more informed decisions. Separating decision-making from application process logic is often beneficial, hence designing adaptive predictive models based on Software as …